Police release IDs in officer-involved crash

Updated 10:02 pm, Wednesday, November 27, 2013

SAN ANTONIO — Police have named the officers and another driver involved in a Nov. 1 crash on Interstate 10 westbound near Probandt Street downtown.

A detective, whom police identified as C. Lewis, was responding to a call at about 10:30 a.m. when he got a flat tire, a police report states. Lewis pulled over to the shoulder and called for a wrecker and another officer to help him with traffic control.

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Connell diverted traffic so the wrecker operator could change the flat tire, and when that task was completed, a funeral procession was passing in the second lane, police said.

Keith Allen Jahnke, 74, was driving a white Chevrolet C2500 pickup west in the third lane and passed through an opening in the funeral procession, causing him to hit the 2009 Ford Crown Victoria with Connell inside, police said.

The crash dislodged the front passenger-side wheel from Jahnke's pickup, which another driver, a 21-year-old man, ran over in the third lane, officials said. His pickup, a 2011 Ford 450, might have sustained undercarriage damage, police reported.

Connell was treated for minor injuries at Metropolitan Hospital. The other drivers were not injured, police said.